Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Brian Haw arrested

It had to happen. Fat Poof Mrs Dale decided that the place looked "untidy" (the irony) and another Queen might be offended by looking at common people today, so sod the promise to restore our right to protest peacefully. Lock 'em up, whatever.

It seems the idea of putting away my mask and cape are a little premature.

37 comments:

He hasn't exactly been treated harshly. Points been made now he can doodle off. When does a protest become residence?

I might take up permanent residence under admiralty arch in protest of the governments refusal to subsidise doughnuts.

Nah, enough's enough, everyone has been fair to the stupid old hippie. Now he can go and stink up somewhere less and be a magnet for lesbians with hairy armpits, billboards, and Harriet Harman-esque politics.

I think there's something a bit bigger than a fine line separating the right to protest outside Parliament, and camping on a public space with your dole scrounging mates.

Our rights should extend to being able to march down there this afternoon with a couple of thousand people with signs, to protest should we feel like it, without having to get prior permission to do so. That's what matters, can we do that now, and if not - when will they amend the law such that we can?

Just left the following mg on Ian Dale's site - don't think it will ever appear though!Humph - hardly a big triumph for democracy is it? Immigrants are allowed to squat in people's houses http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/164583/Romanians-steal-man-s-home & back gardens http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8582000/8582784.stm. Travellers are allowed to despoil our parks & countryside because it's their Yuman Rite http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23481502-travellers-build-a-12000-hall-at-illegal-camp---with-taxpayers-cash-and-without-planning-permission.do but a well known political protester is arrested - whoopy do - so much for restoring our Civil Rights - obviously only if you're the 'right sort of person'. I don't think I'd admit to my letter to BJ if i were you Ian - not something to be proud of IMHO

"Phoenix, an environmental activist who has been living in the camp, witnessed the arrests. He said..."

Fucking sums it up in my book. A bloke calling himself Phoenix dossing on the green in an environmental protest.

And Billy Blofeld - long enough to make you point and then you can move along. Haw has cost us enough in legal challenges (the only reason he is still there is because a 'loophole' was found in the law - did he pay for that challenge or did we??)

I'm all for the right to peaceful protest, but I wouldn't mind seeing it limited, say, to daylight hours only. As it is a deranged tramp has been camping there for nine bloody years, achieving nothing and getting up a lot of peoples' noses in the process. The Right to Protest should be just that: turn up, make a noise and a protest (no amplification systems permitted), then bloody well leave the place once the protesting has been done.

Do it like that and the politicians can gauge the strength of feeling by how many people are there and how much noise they're getting, because these protesters will have to go home (or at least vacate the square) overnight. On the other hand turning a public square into a dosshouse for a horde of crusties does nobody much any good; the crusties make themselves look stupid and their cause fatuous, and the police end up looking heavy-handed for removing the fools.

9 years is quite obviously taking the biscuit though. I'm not sure that even Brian Haw remembers what he is protesting about any more - he's got locked into some sad cycle, like that twat that lived in the airport terminal for a year.

Surely a protest is valid all the time that that which you're protesting about is still happening?

Last I checked there is still a bit of trouble in Iraq involving British troops, which I believe is what Mr Haws is protesting.

Or is it the case that if a protest doesn't produce results within 30 minutes or so (turn up shout go home)one should just give up? Part of the point about a protest is that it does get up peoples noses, part of the aim is to be enough of a nuisance that those you're protesting against change their behaviour.

OH it seems most people don't take your stance on Mr Haw. In my opinion he's a sad git that has some [mental health]problems and needs some help. Be nice if he could do something useful instead of poncing off the rest of us in the name of protest. There are concerns about the right to protest but the restrictions are because, as usual, the minority ruin it for the majority. The rest of the happy campers should be water cannoned off the square. They're a bunch of cunts - like most of the occupants in the big posh building opposite, but it seems some change may be coming along.

OH - for a Libertarian, why do you refer to "Fat poof Mrs Dale" - just make your bloody point without being so fucking offensive, I thought that was part of the point of Libertarianism, ie. do what you want as long as it doesn't hurt others.

brian haw is a cunt....protesting...what ever ! scruffy ,squatting, and i suspect claiming "some" kinda benefit, he made his point, now he can fuck off, shit happens...so does war, like posted above, he coudld standand make his point from the inside, or get a job and dontae his wages to help soldiers that come back from iraq and 'stan...but nooooooo, not for cunting haw, real life is too hard for the squatting cunt

From reading a few "left" wing blogs and listening to people in the affected areas are you sure they're not still protesting just not by "turning up and shouting"?

Also the protests outside the SA embassy during apartheid amongst other human rights protests went on for years and the authorities seemed to have no problems with them 0r the tamils who also occupied the same square a while back. The objection seems to be only when the protest is against our own government.

dear anonymous nazi cunts.He's harming nobody but the delicate retinas of fascist scumbags like you.If they don't want him there,then he is stll effective.He's protesting against 2 illegal wars being waged against innocent people,with illegal depleted uranium.All paid for with your taxes you stupid twat.He's done more for his fellow man than you ever will you illiberal shithead.

Brian Haw has done more for this country than Iain Dale and his self serving 'blog' will ever do.Vicious little queens like Dale shouldn't do politics, they have a tendency to want to put their penis up the arse of the country.

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